Top 5 of Everything 2011: Lit

Top 5 Literary Series
Reading Under the Influence
Neutron Bomb
Write Club
Quickies
P. Fanatics—John Wawrzaszek

Top 5 Nonfiction Books
“Rin Tin Tin” by Susan Orlean
“Plastic: A Toxic Love Story” by Susan Freinkel
“Moonwalking with Einstein” by Joshua Foer
“The Geeks Shall Inherit the Earth: Popularity, Quirk Theory and Why Outsiders Thrive After High School” by Alexandra Robbins
“Sex on the Moon: The Amazing Story Behind the Most Audacious Heist in History” by Ben Mezrich—Kelly Roark

Top 5 Nonfiction Books
“Bottom of the 33rd: Hope, Redemption, and Baseball’s Longest Game” by Dan Barry
“Unfamiliar Fishes” by Sarah Vowell
“Moby-Duck: The True Story of 28,800 Bath Toys Lost at Sea and of the Beachcombers, Oceanographers, Environmentalists, and Fools, Including the Author, Who Went in Search of Them” by Donovon Hohn
“Life Itself” by Roger Ebert
“Blue Nights” by Joan Didion—Eric Lutz

Top 5 Fiction Books
“House of Holes: A Book of Raunch” by Nicholson Baker
“Lost Memory of Skin” by Russell Banks
The Buddha in the Attic” by Julie Otsuka
“Swamplandia!” by Karen Russell
“The Pale King: An Unfinished Novel” by David Foster Wallace—Eric Lutz

Top 5 Book Titles We Have in Mind to Capitalize on the Success of “Go the F*ck To Sleep”For the Love of Christ, I Can’t Hear Myself Think
Pick Up Your Toys, You Little Shit
Eat Your Goddamn Peas Before I Lose My Goddamn Mind
Drinking from a Cup, Or, Get off the Tit: A Novel
Jesus Fucking Christ, You Make My Life Complete—Kelly Roark

Top 5 YA Trilogies For Which We Can’t Wait For the Next Installment
“Divergent” by Veronica Roth
“Bumped” by Megan McCafferty
“Blood Red Road” by Moira Young
“Matched” Ally Condie
“Delirium” by Lauren Oliver—Kelly Roark